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The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments
A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go wrong when corporations provide direct care to vulnerable patients.  In this case, the vulnerable patients had cancer, and the corporation that provided them care was the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA).  I will try to go through the case chronologically.As Rueters reported, CTCA "was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson, who has been chairman ever since."The Founder's Checkered PastA Misdemeanor As Reuters noted,A graduate of Northwestern University Law Schoo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception crime marketing Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital systems complementary/ alternative medicine Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 16th 2021
In conclusion, cancer survivors, especially older individuals, demonstrate greater odds of and accelerated functional decline, suggesting that cancer and/or its treatment may alter aging trajectories. Linking Particulate Air Pollution and Dementia in a Small Region of the US https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/08/linking-particulate-air-pollution-and-dementia-in-a-small-region-of-the-us/ It is fairly settled that evident particulate air pollution, such as daily exposure to smoke from wood-fueled cooking fires, has a strongly detrimental effect on long-term health. The mechanisms involved are inflamm...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 15, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Why Health Reform is a Risky Business for Politicians: Even Winning Can Cost You at the Polls!
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In August 1989, Chicago Congressman Daniel Rostenkowski, then Chairman of the “powerful” House Ways and Means Committee, narrowly escaped an angry mob of seniors in his own district who attacked his car with umbrellas. His crime: eliminating the gaping patient financial exposure built into the Medicare program in 1965 by raising taxes on the “high income” elderly.   In November, 1989 Congress rescinded the so-called Catastrophic Coverage Act, a bipartisan reform signed into law by Ronald Reagan just sixteen months earlier. In the spring of 1994, Bill and Hillary Clinton abandoned their famously ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Guest Blogger: Grace Quantock on Relaxation Rehabilitation, Part 2
The Great Big Fear Illness can be uncomfortable and messy. Rest can seem boring. Before I reframed my thinking, when I was resting I felt sick. I had to rest, I could not carry on with whatever activity I was doing. I came face to face with the reality of the sickness. We get scared, and we are scared of losing dignity, life, hope, purpose, independence, and respect. And yet we are overcoming that fear every day we live with illness, or that we live as a survivor of illness. We are so much more, because of overcoming all this, not less. The fact that we are still managing to keep on even with the struggles, the pain, the u...
Source: Bah! to cancer - April 24, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: wellbeing grace quantock guest blogger Source Type: blogs

Why Don’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event Wednesday co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy! In 2009, upon review of the science on tanning beds and cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer assigned tanning beds a class 1 carcinogen, joining tobacco and asbestos in the highest classification of harm. In spite of this development, skin cancer rates ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer prevent cancer foundation Source Type: blogs

Why Don ’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
With our Back to School series highlighting how best to navigate through the college journey; we also revisit a series that ran last year in May covering the hazards of indoor tanning beds. The following is one of the posts that spoke to the risks and concerns as they relate to skin cancer. It’s Flashback Friday here at Disruptive Women in Health Care! With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event Wednesday co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Wellness prevent cancer foundation Source Type: blogs

Smoking Linked to One-Fourth of All US Cancer Deaths
For me personally, the noxious habit of smoking does not seem to exist any more. At home and when traveling to large cities in the U.S., I rarely see anyone smoking. And yet, here's an article that indicates that smoking is linked to one-fourth of all U.S. cancer deaths (see:One-fourth of US cancer deaths linked with 1 thing: smoking). Below is an excerpt from it:Cigarettes contribute to more than 1 in 4 cancer deaths in the U.S. The rate is highest among men in Southern states where smoking is more common and the rules against it are not as strict. The American Cancer Society study found the hi...
Source: Lab Soft News - November 15, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: General Healthcare Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Research Preventive Medicine Public Health Informatics Source Type: blogs

How Trump Can Kill the Cancer In Obamacare Without Congress
By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Cancer is a devious and devastating disease. All it takes are a few bad cells to grow uncontrollably, first destroying organs, then an entire person. It can also lie dormant for years after supposedly being cured, then at some moment awaken from its remission slumber to resume its search-and-destroy mission. Even if cancer is controlled, it can still leave its victim in a weakened or debilitated condition, a shadow of its former robust self. What if the Affordable Care Act, affectionately known as Obamacare, was unintentionally infected with cancer back in 2010 when it was voted into law? What if the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Hopeful Breast Cancer news
While breast cancer is generally pretty treatable (given early detection and regular exams), some forms of the disease are especially pernicious. Now, the Feds have "approved a new "smart bomb" drug ... that can help women with one of the most hard-to-cure types of breast cancer."Called Kadcyla, it attacks HER2-positive form of breast cancer; it's not necessarily a cure, but it does appear to add several months to victims' lives. It's actually a hybrid, combining an older drug (Herceptin) with the powerful chemo med DM1.Does it work as advertised?You be the judge:"In a trial of 991 women with advanced HER2 breast cancer, t...
Source: InsureBlog - February 22, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs

Move Along, No Health Care Corruption to See Here
Health care corruption, remains a largely taboo topic, especially when it occurs in developed countries like the US.  Searching PubMed or major medical and health care journals at best will reveal a few articles on health care corruption, nearly all about corruption somewhere else than the authors' countries, usually in someplace much poorer.  While the media may publish stories about issues related to health care corruption, they are almost never so labelled.Yet Transparency International's report on global health care corruption suggested it occurs in all countries.  A recent TI survey showed that 43% of U...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 21, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: bribery Cancer Research and Prevention Institute complementary/ alternative medicine health care corruption Source Type: blogs

Mom Knows Best: Overcoming Life’s Hardships
Life bruises. For others, it cripples. And, for a select few, it empowers. As we marvel at others’ resilience during uncommon adversity, what lessons are applicable to our lives? On a gloomy October day, the doctor’s diagnosis numbed us. “Pancreatic cancer,” he spat out. My aunt and I recoiled. The word — cancer — buzzed in our ears. Shoulders slumping, our mist-filled eyes met. We were dazed; cancer happens to others. Not our familial matriarch. Grim-faced and sullen, we staggered to Mom’s hospital room. And here, in a sterile hospital room, Mom’s resilience transcended our raw, unfiltered emotions...
Source: World of Psychology - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Brain and Behavior Caregivers Family General Grief and Loss Inspiration & Hope Parenting Personal Relationships Cancer Courage Forgiveness Grace grieving Mom Motherhood pancreatic cancer diagnosis Resentment Resilience Source Type: blogs

More Health Care Professionals and Trainees Provoked to Resist - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Protest of Leaders ' Acquiescence to Trump ' s Muslim Travel Ban
The executive order by President Trump that temporarily banned immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries provoked health care professionals and trainees to challenge another health care leader whom had not been so challenged previously.We recently described how professionals and trainees protested the decision by Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove not to cancel a fund raising event a Mar a Lago, the resort owned by President Trump, even though Mr Trump ' s ban had resulted in the deportation (since reversed) of a Cleveland Clinic physician trainee, and Cleveland Clinic health care professionals and trainees had...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect boards of directors Bristol-Myers-Squibb conflicts of interest Donald Trump Harvard Medical School logical fallacies Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine, October 22, 2014
From MedPage Today: Office Visits Linked to National HTN Control. While hypertension treatment rates have risen over the past decade, but control of hypertension may have plateaued, according to a national study that suggested regular office visits as a key factor. A Youthful Approach to Breast Cancer Prevention. Most of us are prone to some level of procrastination. From filing taxes to buying birthday gifts to paying bills, we can put some things off to the last possible moment. And apart from a bit of added stress from bumping up against a deadline, what real difference does it make? Usually very little. ‘Yes...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 22, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: News Cancer GI Heart Infectious disease Source Type: blogs

How to Cope with a Scary Medical or Mental Health Diagnosis
Most of us are sanguine about the fact that some things are out of our control. We know, for example, that we can’t avoid death or taxes or do much about how tall we’ll grow. For much of everything else, we figure out a way to deal with what happens in life — until we can’t, for one reason or another. A prime example is the emotional upheaval caused by receiving an unexpected and scary medical or mental health diagnosis. Having gone through this myself recently, here are some ways to help you cope. Get all the facts. After the initial shock, take a few deep breaths and resolve to learn as much as you can about ...
Source: World of Psychology - January 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Anxiety and Panic Grief and Loss Health-related Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Cancer Chronic Illness Coping Skills health scare Medical Care Mental Illness Resilience Source Type: blogs

Government Spending: Accounting and Economics
A Wall Street Journal story today looks at government spending through the lens of the national income and product accounts (NIPA). The article says that as government spending rises, it is “no longer dragging on growth.” Unlike recent years when spending was supposedly cut, the government today “has ceased to be a drag on growth.” But that is an unwarranted conclusion from the NIPA data, which are produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The BEA includes government output within overall gross domestic product (GDP). The first thing to note is that measuring government output is guesswork because most of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs